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♪ this is al jazerra america live from new york city, i am tony harris. we begin with breaking news. out of canada, police have now identified the gunman involved in today's shootings. they say he shot and killed a soldier at the national war memorial now several parts of downtown ottawa are still under lock down. a closer look now at the area shows the memorial is only blocks from the canadian parliament where officials say the suspect managed to get in and fire several shots, canada's national newspaper, the globe and mail captured this dramatic video inside parliament. [ gunshots ] >> and the gunman is now dead but it's not clear if he act ahead loan. this week canada raised its terror alert level after a

soldier was killed in a hit and run near montreal. the driver was a young canadian who recently convert today islam. tom a dr drayton is here with m. >> police search for additional suspects and try to answer a series of questions about security threats facing that nation. 9:52 a.m. sought what, shots ring out in the heart of ottawa's capital. a soldier sanding guard at the national war memorial was fatality shot by what witnesses describe as a lone gunmen with a white scarf around his face. moments late, he just steps away, more gunfire. this time inside the canadian parliament. witnesses describe hearing two rounds of gunfire, the first in the parliament foyer. a minute later, another round near the entrance of parliament's library. frightened workers kneeling inside report hearing 30 to 50

shots with most appearing to have been fired by officers at the gunman. when the shooting ended, a lone gunman was lying motionless on the ground near the library entrance. minutes later eyewitness accounts. >> the building right now is in a complete lock down. m.p.s and senators along with staff are in various lock down rooms, people are quite shaken, the whole idea of it happening in your own backyard, this kind of terrorist attack, didn't seem possible. but we are in a situation where it is my understanding that one shooter has been killed. and there may be -- for sure there is one other one. and there could be possibly three. >> but with the police thought another active shooter came a series of vents, police and tack

tackle squads along fences. police cleared streets around parliament. shouting it's still an active scene. nearby residents were told to stay inside and way from windows and roof tops and all ottawa police stations were closed to the public. the u.s. embassy was placed on lock down. >> all available resources have been deployed to this ongoing police operation. our priority is the safety and security of their community. additional resources are on stand by should they be required. and all fles mesh srurs been tan to e ensure of is a at this of r sense. >> this comes two days after a man ran down two police killing one. and then he was killed. questions remain including whether this was a direct attack on the canadian military.

>> we are very aware of the large presence of military personnel in our community. and want them to know that we are committed to their safety. >> once again police are still trying to sort out all the details surround this is shooting including whether or not the shooter, 32-year-old canadian born michael zehaf-bibeau had ties to any terrorist groups. but right now there is no motive. >> thank you, thomas. people under lock down have been live tweeting their experiences today. and we have been following it all afternoon and the early everything for us, what is happening now? >> ottawa police put out a map of the safety perimeter of the area that's been on lock down and it's shurnk down here, but you can see here this is where the war them or area is. it's blocks away from parliament hill. the green grass and the buildings this way, it's a one, two, three, four, five, about five blocks across and several blocks up here. so you can see this is the

entire perimeter that the ottawa safety perimeter police say if you are within the safety perimeter, you have to stay inside your building until further notice. if you live within the perimeter, you will not have access and will need to make alternate arrangements. if you are in the downtown area, but outside the perimeter, you can exit your building, but you have to stay off the streets in the safety perimeter until further notice. so what has some people been tweeting. jerry a parliament member just earlier he was tweeting this picture. you can see armed officers here going from office to office. he was tweeting all morning long. and in this tweet he says going door to door, room to room, you can see the police, the security, men and women doing hero's work. and this is a picture that jake you be tweeted out from his apartment buildinparliament bui. he told me he is in lock down.

he was notified he cannot drive home. christopher ross, he's a web developer earlier he tweeted this picture from his window, just in the lock down area of the hill times office. and then he tweet third degree out saying that police were escorting them out of the building, finally. so people have been able to leave their buildings. but they can't get back in. >> okay. ines i know you'll continue to follow this for us, thank you. >> thank you. >> and you heard a built from canadian senator minimum son as the events were unfolding a spoke to him a couple of hours ago and he said these shootings are a particular sho shock to a country like canada. >> we are peaceful people and it's the classic we never thought we would it would happen here, our security is decent but

not like in capitol hill with use is and so on, but as a country there is a target other our forehead and it's the canadian flag, we have joaned the fight against isis and there will be repercussions repercuss. >> do you have to think security in your country balls of what's happening with isil and the events of this week so far? not just what happened today, but what happened on monday as well? >> we have fighter jets now in iraq and of course as you mentioned in the province of quebec which is not very far away. the poor servicemen that were ran down by a radicalized muslim. is the term that they are using it. we have seen a few men who were part and parcel of the big fight that happened in the algeria at the oil refinery. we are not immune from this.

this country used to think an ocean separates us from reality but reality has struck home and we have to live with this. >> was there a heightened security presence on parliament hill in light of the country's terror a left being raised? >> we certainly didn't notice it. there are always a lot of police cars on the hill from the rcmp. the royal c canadian mounted police, you always see it, but didn't actually feel it. this morning when it happens it was as much as a shock to me as anybody else that maybe should know better, but when the security officer ran in to our committee room and said get out, get out. there is a gunman in the building. there was a surreal moment where is this really happening here and now? when you heard the volley of gunshots it made you feel that there was more than one shooter, but it has been said by others this could have been really tragic. just very sad that a soldier died, our second soldier died.

>> yes, but it could have been much worse. president obama is offering help to canada as a response to today's shootings, he spoke to canada's prime minister this afternoon and mike viqueira joins us now. how is the president reacting to these attacks literally next door? >> publicly what american officials are saying details are still sketchy, they trying on work with canadian those, president obama was made away of the vents shortly after they began happening this morning, he was told by his security adviser lisa monaco in the hours that unfolded after that. white house officials reach out to their canadian counterparts to see this they could provide information, investigative or otherwise as they struggled to deal with this situation. president obama got on the phone with prime minister harper, his counterpart in canada, of course expressing his condolences, don condemning the attacks and offering the assistants of the united states, later this afternoon president obama in a previously scheduled unrelated

photo op in the oval office spoke extensively about the unfolding situation. >> we don't have the information about what motivated the shooting. we don't yet have all the information about whether this was part of a broader network or plan or whether this was an individual or series of individuals who decided to take these actions. but it emphasizes the degree to which we have to remain vigilant when it comes to dealing with these kind of acts of senseless violence. >> reporter: so obviously the first concern or one of the first concerns here in washington and elsewhere is was this an act of terror and could it be perpetrated here in washington? was this the first of dominoes to fall? details are sketchy. officials stress that they have no evidence to back that up whatsoever at this point, tone. >> i so, mike, is there any indication that u.s. agen agencs are on higher alert as a result of the attacks. >> you can bet that the fbi, homeland security and other law

enforcement are looking closely at this. we might add at this points, tony there were reports elsewhere that norad, the north american air defense organization is sort of a vets taj of the colvestige of the con high alert. norad calls those reports inaccurate. they are knocking them down. the tomb of the unknown soldiers as it happens just across the river here in washington the rough equivalent of the war memorial in o ottawa they have doubled up and actually i shouldn't say doubled up, they have add today security there as well. we do have a statement al jazerra has obtained from the homeland security official, it reads as follows, our security posture which always clues a number of measures both seen and unseen will don't adapt appropriately to continue to protection the american people. no outward signs that security has been stepped up, although you can beto visuals are looking at this very closely. >> seen and unseen. okay. mike viqueira for us at the white house, thank you.

four men who worked agents security guards in iraq for the black water group found guilty today on charges ranging from murder for manslaughter the verdicts were read after the 11 week trial. it charges stem from a mass shooting in baghdad in 2007. more than 30 iraqi civilians shot. 14 died and the black water guards claim they responds today incoming fire and their lawyers plan to appeal. >> it's difficult to understand it given the evidence. but you know, i will review our options with evan and i expect we are going to appeal. and we are going to continue to fight vigorously for him. >> prosecutors argued the shooters were unpro vehicled. jayna wrath has a look at how the case got to this point. >> reporter: it's taken seven years for bring the case to court. for hussein it feels like yesterday. >> we went to the place of the incident, we went to the square,

and saw bullets in the square and burned cars. >> reporter: his older brother was driving his taxi when guards from the american private security firm known then as black water, blocked the streets and started shooting. >> translator: i arrived at the hospital and saw three to four people dead already and many injured. my brother was in very critical condition. he was shot in his lungs. >> reporter: two years ago hussein and other families settled a civil suit out of court. he says after paying almost one-third of the settlement in legal fees, each family received about $230,000. he said he wanted to see the men hang. >> they walk around freely as if they haven't conduct a crime at all. all of the victims' families were surprised and hurt to see them walking in the streets. >> reporter: when hussein and his cousin were taken to the united states to testify in the

trial, he said he was struck by how kind people were. he says he doesn't think the guards represent all americans. this is the square now. for most people american soldiers killing civilians at checkpoints and security contractors driving around with guns blazing, is a distant memory. but the black water killings here left a legacy that contributed to changing the course of iraqi and american history. when it came time to negotiate an agreement to leave a limited number of u.s. soldiers here, anger over the killings played a large part in iraqi lawmakers insisting the troops leave. as dangerous as iraq has become, most iraqis say they would rather take their chances than ever again allow foreign soldiers or security contractors to rule their streets. jane, al jazerra, baghdad. iraq's peshmerga fighters are preparing to deploy to fight

in kobane. earlier today the iraqi kurdish parliament approved sending in troops to help syrian kurds. u.s. led air strikes have done little to slow down the fighters think the armed group stepped up its assault after hearing reinforcements are on the way, bernard smith sought turkey-syria board wetter very latest. >> reporter: we have heard intensive gun firing from kobane today, wednesday, most of the fighting to the east of kobane where kurdish fighters are still trying to push back isil fighters, have also been some u.s. air strikes again, the kurds in kobane are able to coordinate with the u.s. coalition send them the information of where they need to target and then the u.s. coalition aircraft are able to target buildings, housing isil, isil equipment, isil fighters. turkish president erdogan says he doesn't understand why kobane is strategically important for the u.s., he is i especially ass

no civilians left in there. however, the u.s. says it's because there are more fighters pouring in from isil that it has more targets to hit. but the u.s., of course, has also said that it would be morley wrong, the u.s. second of state saying it's morley wrong not to help the kurds in kobane. the pent connecticut firms a second weapons drop did not read kurdish fighters. 24 bundles provided by iraqi kurds, this video was posted yesterday claiming to show crates of weapons. military said it knew of only one bundle that went a stray. that was destroyed before isil could take ownership of it. we are following developments out of ottawa and the attack on canada's parliament today and ali velshi has spent a lot of time in that building, we'll get his thoughts next. also a clean bill of health for one of the americans infected with ebola.

canadian officials are trying to figure out if there are any other suspects involved in today's shootings.

new video shows just how chaotic the scene became today as word of a gunman near parliament spread. police raced to secure nearby builds. >> even out. everybody out. there is a gunman in the foyer. >> really? >> the suspect, michael zehaf-bibeau killed a soldier at the country's war memorial he was later killed at the parliament building. for more on the investigation anand the die dynamic goes of tl tan let's bring in ali shelvey what are your thoughts. >> it's a makes itchings at parliament for something very recentlrecently. a hugh security vents. if you are not already screened, the security for someone like me to get in to parliament was like airport security. i will see as soon as something

happened both parliamentary security and rcmp come down and they are very well armed and equipped. it's just not something you expect to happen in canada specific there on happen in ottawa which really, is described as a sleepy place by even the most generous of folk. so quite surprising. the other thing that continues to trouble us, tony, is that we have not got straight answers from the authorities. >> right. >> as to whether or not they are looking for somebody else. and whether or not there are ties to terrorism. we have a name now and once you have a name you can start looking for details in to someone. and that's starting to become clearer, i would assume at this point if they have released a name, that they have some sense as to whether or not they are looking for someone else. but i am still in contact with members of parliament, i know you have been talking to them who are still in lock down, they have not been released. they have start today release people from the area in downtown ottawa, they have shrunk the perimeter.

the cordon of security, you can't get in to the cordon of security. whether that's to preserve evidence or because they are looking for someone. i highly doubt it's the latter but ottawa is closed while the police figure out what is going on. >> this is a city you love and a country that you obviously love. you get an episode like this, is it time do you think for the country to rethink it's security strategy and how might that change the dynamics of a country you love so much? >> you know, something we talked about earlier, until 2007, there really weren't armed guards in parliament. always the rcmp and the military is close by. the uniformed guards that walked around there was controversy about whether she should even carry pa dons the expandable batons that are small and get bigger let alone guns. the sergeant at arms which is largely a ceremonial post as it is in congress, who shot the gunman dead, that sergeant at

arms was a 29 year veteran of the royal canadian mounted police, he was an ex-mount i himself. so i think canadians are going to have to rethink it especially in their light of their willingness to participate in at tacks on isil since they have raised the terror level in canada from low to medium last friday. there was an tack on two canadian soldiers by someone who was alleged to be ready to deploy free throw turkey to join isil. so canada is in the fight. i think there are a lot of struggles going on in the minds of many canadiens too fast always a one act of a loan man or whether canada is in some ways like america had to face up to in 9/11 this is a clear sign that canada is vulnerable to attack, i know you will do more at the top of the hour, we will encourage everyone to northern to your program at 7:00 eastern time. several developments on he ebola today, the new ebola czar

is on the job now. he met with top white house aides to coordinate the response. in nebraska, the cameraman is out of the hospital and virus free and the center for disease control says it will monitor all passengers arriving from west africa for 21 days that, expanded layer of screening starts monday. it rolls out in six days where officials say 70% of all western passengers arrive. passengers get information cards and a thermometer they will be required to check in daily to report on their status. there may be a link between the mayor of a southern mexico town and those 43 students who disappeared last month. that's according to the country's attorney general. he says the mirroredded police to stop students from disrupting an events where the mayor's wife, who has links to drug gangs, was speaking. now, the students disappeared after police attacked that event. the mayor's wife, the mayor, and the local police chief are now considered fugitives.

police are trying to figure out if 30 bodies found in nine mass graves are the missing students. it is week four of demonstrations in hong kong and frustration is running high. a senior government officials and student leaders failed to break their impasse during direct talks on tuesday and today protesters took their grievances directly to the doorstep of hong kong's leader. here is more. >> reporter: these demonstrators say they have been put in this position by what they call an inning effective government that's let them down. they are demanding free elections and social justice. as well as for the city's chief executive to resign. >> translator: he is only messenger, only getting approval from the central government before he can make a decision on matters. 79 the protests have lasted for more than three weeks. on tuesday, landmark mediation talks between senior government officials and protest leaders

failed to reach a compromise, demonstrators feel ignored. they say the talks show that instead of representing their interests through the central government in beijing, city officials only serve as a mouth piece for china's ruling party. it was that party that had promised people in hong kong a workable democracy within a communist state. >> the demonstrators got as far as the side entrance to the government house where the chief executive lives before being stopped by police, they are disappointed and frustrated they say, but they are not going to stop their civil disobedience until they see a concrete change. but also frustrated is another group of people who say they are also fighting for hong kong. they live in the city and oppose the street demonstrations. and have started a petition to show that they represent what they call the silent majority. >> translator: we demands this they give us the roads back. give us back law and order. they have kidnapped our opinions

for more than 20 days. it has gone beyond our tolerance. >> reporter: many here fear the increasing divisiveness only works in the government's favor. >> they could crack down with higher level of force, which would make it more justifiable because, you know, peace and law, legal system is being at stake. >> reporter: despite court orders and pleas, those out on the streets say they don't plan to leave any time soon. they have been able to camp right by the doors to the legislate true. the protesters know that they have the central government in beijing concerned. there has been no challenge to its authority quite like this. the question is, how long before the tolerance on either side runs out. al jazerra, hong kong. coming up more on the shooting in the canadian parliament. we'll hear from a canadian professor and military expert about the country's securit apparatus and how the politics

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back to the breaking news out the canada now, we have just learned the identity of the soldier shot and killed by a gunman today, canada's national defense says reservist corporal nathan cirillo was killed. officials have also identified the gunman, they say michael zehaf-bibeau shot and killed corporal cirillo at the country's national war memorial. then he managed to get in to the parliament building and he can change fire with police there where he was killed. officials are trying to figure out if zehaf-bibeau acted alone, a portion of downtown ottawa remains under lock down and let's bring in christian, he is an associate dean and professor at the royal military college of

canada, whose research deals with terrorism and the national security. christian good to talk to you. put in to some kind of context for me, if you would, please, how long big a security breach we are talk big here, first at the war memorial where the soldier is royal wasoldier cirid then the gunman was killed in parliament. >> the war memorial has two honorary guards this was something that was instituted by the current government just about a month ago we had officers of the royal canadian mounted police who were shot. someone bent on shooting an innocent person in uniform, it's very difficult to protect against that. and, sure, the government has made major changes to site and perimeter security in the parliamentary precinct since 9/11, but i think probably these incidents will lead to further reviews of especially traffic flows on the precincts, human

flows. but at the same time, the response was very coordinated. no member of parliament was harmed or taken hon hostage, the political people were safe, the constitution was insured as well as the rule of law and the prime minister and senior he can exece members of the candidate. so the robustness of democratic government in canada was assured and at the same time the royal canadian mounted police emergency response team responded in a timely and effective manner. and i was only steps from the location at the time. and so this looked like all the chaos notwithstanding a coordinated effort and response by security forces. >> okay, christian, so the terror alert level as you know was raised from low to medium after the soldier was ran over and killed on monday watch does that mean in terms of increased police presence, measures that

are seen and unseen? >> right. so it means basically different way of allocating your resources. both in terms of having a greater presence as in effort to deter anybody who would be looking to engage in such action and also deploying resources from perhaps lower priority files to national security priorities. so as to able to have the investigative capacities and intelligence capacities surged in an effort to mitigate any potential risk. >> as you know the a canadian parliament has vote today authorize the country's armed force to his join the u.s.-led air strikes against isil, isis, do you see the events in today and particularly the running down of the two soldiers and again the death of one on monday and what happened today as being connected events? >> so, look, i think we have to be very careful about the inferences we draw, many people hold radical rules but what they

say a true predictor of what they will do we have very knew rad cams not. >> just canada but across the western world, democratic world move to action. at the same time, just because you hold radical views it might be that you are having a bad day that actually triggers you engaging in violence. there are reports that the individual yesterday who ran over two canadian -- members of the canadian armed forces had lost a custody battle in the montreal court. >> i see. >> and so perhaps just anger where somebody just who blew a gasket on that day so let's be careful about not necessarily instrumental icing these particular events, even if that was the case and we gave in as a society and changed our policies and changed our way of life in a way then the terrorists would have won. >> well, how would you describe homegrown terror, the threat of homegrown terror in canada?

>> canadian criminal intelligence did a good job since 9/11. canada has been lucky as a society they appear to be quite resilient to ideological extremist views, we seem to have effective deterrents, legislative framework the peer that hold that views appear not to move to action. and several plots, isolated plots but nonetheless a anybody of plots have been uncovered by our security intelligence and criminal intelligence organizations. and so this is so far an outlier two consecutive events notwithstanding. certainly this will cause -- >> a rethink. >> to think that we have to balance between freed company security rights. of course freed company security are not a dichotomy that we can't have one without the other in the 21st censure. >> i that's a hot topic in 1970, the october crisis as i recall.

christian, appreciate it, thank you for your time, christian is an associate dean and professor at the royal military college of canada. we are learning more about what happened the day michael brown was shot and killed in ferguson, missouri. a coppist county's official autopsy was leaked to a st. louis newspaper and it shed some new light on how brown was killed. jonathan betz is here with more details on this. jonathan. >> yeah, tony, new detail are emerging in the shooting. this autopsy report concludes the unarmed teen was shot in the hand at close range supporting the ferguson officer's version of what happened that day in august. [ chanting ] >> for months frosters have said that 18-year-old michael brown had his hand up when he was shot by officer darren wilson. but the official autopsy report appears to suggest otherwise, the st. louis post dispatch asked two experts not associated with the case to review it. a forensic pathologist who reviewed the port says it does

not support witness claims that brown was shot while run weighing or with us had hands up. wilson has told investigators that brown reached through the window of his vehicle and tried to grab his gun. a medical examiner who reviewed the report says the evidence supports that there was a significant altercation at the car. wilson said he fired twice during the struggle, hitting brown in the hand. sources tell the post dispatch that brown's blood was found on wilson's gun. wilson has reportedly said he feared for his life when he fired several more shots. in all the autopsy found three gunshot wounds to michael brown's head. two to his chest. another three to his right arm, and one to his right hand. the foreign i can pathologist says brown was facing wilson when several of the shots were fired. a toxicology analysis included in the report says that brown had marijuana in his system at the time. >> we are being looking for information that is from the autopsy and other scientific

studies that will allow us to eventually reach final conclusions. >> reporter: a private autopsy arranged by brown's family mostly agrees with the official report. but that examination said that none of the gunshot wounds appeared to be fire at close range. now, the results of a third autopsy done by the justice department have not yet been released. the brown family attorney told the associated press today the official autopsy offers no insight in to why brown was killed. and that officer remains on paid leave as a grand jury now decides whether any charges should be filed, tony. >> all right, jonathan, thank you. earlier a spoke with criminal defense attorney i asked him what his resacks to autopsy -- the report leased today by the st. louis post dispatch. >> it's still early. there are other autopsy reports that haven't been done, remember, there is a federal investigation and a federal autopsy report being done at this point in time the only thing that we have at this point in time to indicate that the shot was close range is dr. michael bodden's report, his

report indicates that it was done at close range, but, again, benjamin crump who was the attorney for michael brown is right, we don't know why he shot him. it seems at this point that it still may be excessive even if michael brown was by the car, even if there was a confrontation, why did to have shoot him in the head. that's deadly force. and that's something that is going to be looked at at this point. >> okay, john, a couple of points i will try to build towards something here. is the leak in your view to be trusted, given that the authorities have made a habit in this case as you know, of releasing information that would suggest that michael brown was a bad guy. and i am thinking of the surveillance store video. >> you know, i have a lot of i f trust in our judicial system, i trust that the prosecutors will present all the evidence. not just the bad evidence. the evidence that points to guilt as well as innocence. that's required under a case called brady. brady material is evidence that tends to show signs of innocence. so i am positive, and i have confidence that the prosecutors

are doing that right now. they are just hashing out what's going on as far as the autopsy in relation to the corroborating evidence and the information provide to them. i have the utmost face that justice will be carried in that case. >> the exculpatory evidence will be included as well is what you are saying? you have faith in that? >> it should be. i do have faith in that because it's a high-profile case. >> it is. >> prosecutors in missouri know it will be scrutinized and will be reviewed at some point in time. so i think it would be wise for them to disclose all the exculpatory evidence including the inculpatory evidence. >> that was criminal defense attorney john. and in today's power politics 13 days until the midterm elects and the kentucky senate race, many thought was over, is now the hottest and perhaps the most crucial in the nation. how did that happen? david shuster joins us now with the report. >> tony, this race is certainly not over. and this race in kentucky is the one that may determine in republicans gain control of the u.s. senate.

incumbent republican mitch mcconnell who stands to become senate majority leader if he wins and the republicans gain six seats now has to fends off a very strong surge by democratic challenging alison grimes, polls show grimes has pulled in a statistical dead heat and yesterday former president bill clinton entered the fray as a crimes rally in kentucky. clinton ripped month come for mcconnell telling donors the day reform was the worst daze of his life. >> that was worse than 9/11. that was worse than the day we had the biggest crashing since the great depression. i can think of a thousand things that were worse. a i am not mad. i am sad. don't i think it's sad. wouldn't you feel sick if you spent 30 years representing kentucky in the senate and the worst day of your life was whether there was an honest attempt to limit black bag operations from foreign billionaires from buying your election. >> bill clinton is fired up.

the kentucky race comes down to whether kentucky is more willing to vote against program, who is not on the -- barack obama who is not on the ballot or mitch mcconnell who is. republican locally and nationally continue to criticize president obama and accuse him of respond to go slow there on isil. here is newt gingrich. >> i regard isis and ebola as two viruses that are epidemics that threaten our very civilization. and i would rather overreact to both and get rid of them than under react and have them potentially cripple our civilization. >> that's the reframe that presidenpresident obama has beeo slow. he is staying away from campaign says being west virginia senator joe who is not up for reelection but is campaigning hard. told the washington post, quote, there is nothing in these states president obama can do to help moderate at-risk democrats. people already have perceptions so him coming to the states is

not going to be productive for a candidate. and the new hampshire senate race another race the president is staying way from. they they would a contention debate last night, they clashed on energy, he bowl arc, immigration and the obama administration, watch what happens for her when she was asked if she a proves of president obama's handling of his job. >> do you approve of the job president obama is doing? now, there will be a chance for follow-up, but this is a yes or no answer. do you approve yes or no? >> in some ways i approve, in some things i don't approve. >> they don't have that check on the box. >> like most questions that we deal with as policy makers, there aren't simple answers, yes or no. >> but there are a lot of simple voters and they may not like that response. in florida last night, incumbent republican governor rick scott and charlie christ displayed their mutual contempt of one another to a national 2e8 vision

audience, their campaign has been the costliest and the meanest in the country. the debate started off with moderator jake tapper making a reference to last week's debate drama over a floor fan. >> everybody is comfortable here? >> thank you, yes. >> he everybody is comfortable. >> okay. >> and then the personal jabs began. >> i am on your side. and unfortunately rick scott is not. >> governor scott, do you want to respond. >> first off, charlie, you grew up with money. i grew up with family that struggled. i don't know my natural father, i lived in public housing. >> you group with mon, i grew up with public housing, amazing. finally, new jersey republican governor chris christie continues to del donors and organizers he's giving serious consideration to a primary campaign. part of christy's appeal and part of the drag on him is his bluntness as he just demonstrated in talking about the minimum wage. >> i am tired of hearing about the minimum wage, i really am. i don't think there is a mother

or father sitting around a kitchen table tonight in america who are saying you know, honey, if our son or daughter could just make a higher minimum wage my god all of our dreams would be realized. is that what parents aspire to for their children? >> no, they don't aspire to that, but that's not what the minimum cag wage debate is aboud that's something he will get a chance to learn if he decides to run to the republican presidential nomination. >> appreciate it. thank you. in louisiana abortion is a key issue for voters this year. a new state law could end up closing all but one abortion clinic and while a federal court considers the legality of that move, construction on new clinics is being held up. that's because only a few contractors are willing to work on such a controversial project. jonathan martin with more. >> reporter: river perish disposal is one of new orleans' top waste collection companies in business for more than 30 years, now sudden the family business and reputation is at risk. he says they have unexpectedly

been caught enough a tense debate over other portion rights. >> all of the sudden we started getting e-mails and i am talk become 50, 60 a day. >> reporter: people were outraged his business had contract today haul trash from a new construction site. >> i didn't know what the construction company was building. >> reporter: the project was for a planned parenthood clinch anything new orleans set to be the nonprofit's first office in the state to provide abortions. >> they will never open the doors to do evil. >> reporter: criticism intensified over the sum we are protesters called out contractors for working with planned parents hood. but then one of the city's largest and most influential businesses weighed in. the catholic church in a published letter the archbishop of new orleans declared any company working with the planned parenthood clinic is cooperating with evil. how big is an impact o on did te letter have on your decision to cancel? >> it had a huge impact. >> reporter: there are 1 million

catholics in the community. and they own several universities and several he does business with. >> there is a lot of risk. risk of losing a lot of customers. risk of losing a lot of friends. >> reporter: planned parenthood told al jazerra contractors have been intimidated and bullied but the group says it still hopes to build a health center and see patients next year. jonathan martin, al jazerra, new on are liens. >> and you can see rest jonathan's report in our america votes coverage tonight at eight their p.m. eastern and again at 11:30 here on al jazerra. there are other stories making headlines across the day and ines is here with that. >> a suspected serial killer in indiana refuse to go respond for a judge in his first court appearance. darren van would not speak forcing the judge to postpone the hearing, she told him he would spend th the rest of his e in prison unless he couldn't. he reportedly confess today killing at least seven women. schools in one penn district

reopened today after suspected cop-killing fugitive was spotted in the area. pocono mountain schools were closed yesterday as police conducted a thorough search, still eric fine remains on the run accused of calling state troopetrooper and wounding anotr more than a month ago. ray primary black church in north carolina hit with racist fliers while church goers were attending services someone was plastering the cars with the fliers, the fliers said the democratic senator doesn't win obama's impeachment will begin, the disturbing image was a 1920s lynching. some church members were too frightened to speak on camera. >> at first i was scared, you know, a little concerned but then i got angry. i was very upset that, you know, my church was targed, you know, being it's a predominantly african-american church that i felt the church was targed and i felt threatened i feel threaten. >> the head of the local nacp

thinks the fliers are more partisan than racist. an ohio women who spent the past three months in a hospital in pennsylvania after a rock came crashing through her windshield is going home. she says she is looking forward to the mundane details of life. >> swing my porch, visiting with the kids, and just that type of thing. >> she was driving on a highway when she was hit with a large rock. she suffered brain damage and lot an eye. doctors say her recover is a just remarkable, tone. >> i fighting back, right? never give up, just fight back. see you late, he through, i want nes. coming up we go back to canada for a live report from the scene of today's shooting. we are back in a moment.

dramatic pictures out of canada today. police say after michael zehaf-bibeau shot and killed reservist corporal nathan cirillo he exchanged fire with police inside the parliament building. he was killed in that exchange, canada's national newspaper the globe and mail was inside when it happened and captured this video. take a look. [ gunshots ]

>> margo is a reporter with cbc and joins us live from ottawa. margo, give us the latest that you are hearing on the investigation and the lock down. >> reporter: well, the main part of the downtown core in ottawa that surrounds parliament hill is still locked down. the actual precincts of parliament hill where the shooting took place and six blocks south of it are still locked down we are hearing from the ottawa police. now, many of the m.p.s are still on the hill. in fact there is a day-care there. the children are still there. although we have been hearing that there are preparation says to try to get them off the hill and out of the downtown area.

people who actually live in the downtown core near parliament hill are being told if you are not at home now, forget it, go somewhere else, you can't get back in to that corridor. they are allowing people to leave a little left strict security people out of the downtown core but can't get back in to it. also our prime minister stephen harper is make preparation to his address the nation within the next hour. he also spoke to president obama today who expressed his condolences for the shooting here in ottawa. the shootings here in ottawa. and recalled his visit to ottawa calling it a very peaceful place. which normally it is. those corridors where you saw that shooting normally it's filled with mechanics of parliament, journalists and tourists who walk up and down that very corridor. just a little later in the day. so there is still a feeling of kind of unreality in the city with a lot of people just standing around the barricades watching, waiting to see what is going to happen. >> margo, i will ask you to put me on the ground there in

ottawa. i have never been and a lot of people watching have never been to ottawa. but how shocking is an event like this to take place at a war memorial and then at the parliament building. i have heard ottawa described as a peaceful, even sleepy city. >> reporter: it's both of those things normally. the war memorial and the parliament buildings are three of them in all, are within let's say a 30-second watch of one another if you are standing at one you can see the other. they call it parliament hill because they are built up on a slight slope the buildings. normally during a summer's day you have yoga on the front lawn there is a feeling of people walking up and having a look at the parliament buildings, visitors can go in as well. there is tight security, the security is quite tight there, but the gunman was able to get through the front door surprisingly. for us this just doesn't happen in the capital. it's a civil servant town and parliament and pa la men terriens visit, it's a quiet

town under a million people. >> not quiet today to be sure, market go for us from ottawa. appreciate it, thank you. one american leaseed from north korea but two others still held there, we'll talk to the sister of one of them, kevin bay, about why the recent release may be a sign of hopeful

american jeffrey foul is back home in ohio after north korea released him from detention, he was arrested in may for leaving a bible in a nightclub in north korea. two other american citizens remain. look at the pictures here. remain in prison in north korea. kenneth bay and matthew miller. we spoke with bay's sister. roxanne. >> she says she she feels mixed emotions about kenneth bay's

release, on the one hand she's happy he is home but wishes her brother could have been on that plane too. these images of jeffrey foul reunited with his loved ones are bring both hope and disappointment to the family of kenneth bay. >> i teared up just like probably a lot of people who watched that. you know, it's a happy moment, reunion, but it's alsobilitier sweet because that's the moment that we have been fighting for and dreaming about for the past two year old. >> the korean american is serving 15 years of hard labor. he's charged with trying to overthrow the north korean government. ♪ you know you have been a good friend ♪ >> his friends say he was visiting north korea as a tour guide. >> good treatment. >> a third american matthew miller is serving six years for committing what north korea calls hostile acts. powelfowel was never sentenced. >> one thing that's different is kenneth and matthew miller were both tried and sentenced according to their judicial system. i know that makes things mere

complicated. >> the lack of diplomatic ties between pyongyang and washington have complicated efforts for their release. >> the u.s. government will continue to work actively on both of their cases. we thank the government of sweden for their tireless efforts as you know they are protecting power in the dprk. >> bae's sister says she is thankful but wants u.s. official to his do more. >> at the end of the day it's been two years, so, you know, when you look at it from that angle, from the family's perspective it's not enough until he comes home. >> in those two years, bae has called home four times, his family says he suffers from diabetes and back pain. they want people to help them spread the word about his plight, through had website and social media. until he, too, is on a plane home. >> you know, it's hard to describe just the agony, the day-to-day of not knowing. but we have to keep fighting because you know, we have to keep fighting until he comes

home. we don't have any choice. >> they are also calling on north korea to show goodwill and release her brother. she told me today, tony, that she thinks the state department as as surprised a she was about the release, she said no one there has given her any indication that her brother coulded next but she remains hopeful. >> appreciate it, roxanne. dramatic day, such a dramatic day in ottawa today. canadian capital. we now know that the gunman, michael zehaf-bibeau was shot and killed after he stormed the parliament building there. dramatic video from the globe and mail. the national newspaper that is there. we will show you a little bit of this right now. michael zehaf-bibeau shot and killed a reservist nathan cirillo, and he was killed at the war memorial where he was working stands on the ground post. and then this exchange in the parliament building. zehaf-bibeau was shot and killed in this exchange of gunfire, we

can tell you that ali velshi is covering this store any great detail coming up in minutes at the top of the hour, i am tony hair let new york, we'll see you back here tomorrow. >> a canadian soldier shot dead in parliament. the gunman killed. and there are possibly other shooters out there. ottawa is on lockdown, tonight, the very latest like you won't see anywhere else. i've work in the the parliament building, and i know the players, and tonight we'll talk to them. i'm ali velshi. and this is "real money."